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One Rohingya Man Killed, Another Feared Killed in Sittwe

RB News

August 6, 2017

Sittwe (Akyab) -- One Rohingya man was tortured to death by
the Myanmar police in custody, another is feared to have been killed by
Rakhine extremists in Sittwe (Akyab) Township on Saturday (Aug 5), reliable
sources say.

It has been learnt that two
men, a Rakhine and a Rohingya, riding a motorcycle each crashed into each other
in front of Sittwe University Gate injuring both. While the Police from Security
Force Battalion 36 based in the premise of the University sent the injured
Rakhine man to hospital for treatment, the injured Rohingya man was taken into their
custody.

Though he was badly injured in
the accident, the police tortured him in the custody so bad that it eventually
killed him. He is identified as Mohammed
Abdul (45), s/o Oli Ahmed from ‘Gaung Doukkar’ village.

"He was a poor man going
to sell a pair of gold earrings belonging to his wife in order to buy foods.
However, how he was tortured by the Police instead of giving him treatments
beyond brutality. Besides, the police excused that he died due to injuries and
asthma in the hospital," said a trishaw puller, an eyewitness to the
incident.

The Police handed over his dead
body to his relatives for burial at around 1:00pm having had its post-mortem done in the hospital.

In another incident on the same day, a
Rohingya youth from the village of ‘Ohn Taw Gyi’ is feared to have been killed
by Rakhine extremists at the village of ‘Aung Dain.’

The youth, Eliyaz (26), and
his father, Mohammed Hassan (52), who both earn their livelihood through a
profession of repairing Umbrellas, went into ‘Aung Dain’ Rakhine village to
look for potential customers. [Note: There was no significant tension between
the Rakhines and the Rohingyas in the region prior to this incident.] At some
point into the village, the father and the son separated ways as the son went
into a Rakhine resident when he was called in to repair umbrellas.

The son didn’t come out of the
house but has gone missing since then. The father lodged a police complaint of
his missing son. The police didn't help him find out his son although he
pleaded them to search for his son's dead body in the Rakhine house where
he believes his son was killed, said our sources quoting the statement of
the victim's father.